Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:36:57 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote: > If you have a solution to the above, it can be used to fit everything > into 32 bits. I suggest dynamic numbers with devfs, but that need not > be the only way to solve the problem.
Dynamic numbers will break NFS guarantees when the server reboots. [And breaking NFS was one of the big arguments for not going to 64 bits.] Admittedly, not always -- just at the worst possible times.
A proper solution to the generic problem would be to associate a device number with a configuration string via user space.
-- Raul
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